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Hardcover reprint of the original 1885 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Loewy, Benno. Fmo. The Memorial Volume, A History of The Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, November 9-December 7, 1884. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Loewy, Benno. Fmo. The Memorial Volume, A History of The Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, November 9-December 7, 1884, . Baltimore: The Baltimore Pub. Co., 1885. Subject: Catholic Church In The United States. Plenary Council. 3D. 1884, Baltimore
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During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and civic virtue. As was the case with dissenters from early American established churches, some citizens and religious minorities have dissented from the public school system, what historian Sidney Mead calls the country's «established church.» They have objected to the «orthodoxy» of the public school, compulsory taxation, and attempts to abolish ...
If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the United States finally make a dramatic break with its past and expand parental choice? Those are not only the wrong questions—they’re the wrong premises, argue philosopher Sigal R. Ben-Porath and historian Michael C. Johanek in Making Up Our Mind. Market-driven school choices aren’t new. They predate the republic, and for generations parents have chosen to educate their children through an evolving mix of publicly supported, private, charitable...
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